![]() ![]() With more enterprises adopting tablets instead of laptops for roaming workers, and consumers making the leap to buying tablets as second computers, Parallels Access makes these tablets supremely more useful, and highlights just how versatile they can be. One of the engineers that headed up the development of Access tells me that the app was over a year in the making, as Parallels worked out the precise way of rendering whatever was on a virtual machine as a “native” iPad experience. ![]() The keyboard effectively is an iOS keyboard, but Parallels has also incorporated shortcuts that port over the entire keyboard of the virtualized device as well, with shortcuts to F keys and the rest.įor those who find the idea of using iPad gestures and tools too jarring when editing a PowerPoint or Excel document, they can revert to using the same actions they would use on the virtualized machine - much as they would have with Parallels Mobile. All pages can be expanded into full-screen mode, too. Similarly, you can double tap to zoom, and scroll around documents as you would on an iPad-native page. For example, you can select words with a finger and then drag them, and use the same actions to copy and paste as you would in an iOS app. As with other Parallels virtualization software, you can use the selection tools that are part of the desktop apps that you are using, but Parallels has also developed features that effectively apply the gestures that you’re used to on the iPad to the virtualized files. This is a nice feature that effectively creates a dock that hides when you’re not using it, where apps that you have open can sit for easy swapping. These then can be tapped like apps to launch.Īpp Switcher. This effectively makes the files and applications on the virtual machine appear like a set of apps on the iPad home screen. ![]() The new app, which is priced at $79.99 for a one-year subscription covering one device (each subsequent device that gets virtualized costs another $79.99), comes with a number of features:Īpp Launcher. “With Parallels Access, you can tap, swipe and pinch your way around Mac and Windows applications to ultimately be more productive at work, and lead a more connected life.” “We are now in an always-on age where people are increasingly demanding access to their applications and data regardless of physical location,” said Birger Steen, CEO of Parallels, in a statement. The move taps into the bigger trend we have been seeing among enterprises adopting tablets, as more portable laptop replacements, and also the consumerization of IT, where workers use their own tablets to supplement their work PCs to get things done when on the move. It does so by transforming everything into an “app” experience, complete with iOS gestures to control them. However, it is the first one dedicated specifically to making software and documents from Windows and Mac machines work in a “native” way on the iPad. More than a year in the making, Parallels Access for iPad is not the first tablet-friendly product released by the company - an existing-but-now-discontinued product, Parallels Mobile, works on both the iPad and iPhone. Timed to coincide with VMware’s conference this week in San Francisco, one of its bigger rivals, Parallels, today is unveiling a new app that takes its own virtualization software to a new screen: the iPad. ![]()
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